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I have a tax questions. My wife and our neighbor started a

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I have a tax questions. My wife and our neighbor started a joint business venture last year selling gift baskets online. We've both invested different amounts of money in to the business but have shared the profits equally. We have a business license that lists the two of them as general partners. Since our expenses are different based on our individual financial investment in the business, do we both just deduct whatever our individual expenses were on our own taxes this year and split the revenues or do we have to file our business taxes together somehow? Thanks!!

Good morning. Since you have a partnership, the partnership needs to prepare a tax return and then allocate the deductions to the two of you as partners via a K-1 to each of you. You then take the items on the K-1 and report it on your 1040.

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